For several years now dozens of volunteers from Russia and other countries have been coming to southern Siberia to go on archaeological expeditions. As a result they learn about the history of the peoples that settled in the Republic of Tuva and the Krasnoyarsk Territory thousands of years ago.

A pleasant surprise after a long train journey through the endless taiga, Khabarovsk boasts a picturesque location, some of the area’s best museums and wide boulevards lined with gorgeous Imperial-era buildings.